Treaty rights. Although I do have friends who are of Indian ancestery and respect the rights the government gave them more than 100 years ago, I dont believe that things are always what they should be. The original treatys are at http://members.tripod.com/rampy/treatys.html read them and post you views. I have gone over and over these treatys and can't seem to figure out why and how things have changed so much in the original wording of the treatys. Such as no alcohol on the res but yet you can buy discount liquor on some of the reservations, how according to the treatys there will be no trading with other people but yet the tribes at hoodsport and others, strip the eggs out of the hens and leave the rotting carcasses lay to sell the eggs to Japan?. They never had gill nets across the river a hundred years ago that does not to seem traditional to me but yet it happens. shell fish? I take the treatys to read no harvest on private property but look what happened?
But to be fair we didn,t over a hundred years ago (white man) damm all the rivers for cheap power blocking the migration of anadromous fish, strip the forests for wood thus creating a moonscape enviroment washing silt down the rivers sealing the fate of the anadromous fish who live in the rivers, As we do now. Some where there has to be a happy medium and its up to us to find it. Not for us but for our children and their children, we need to somehow work together without the polititians who care for nothing but your vote and more tax money in my opinion.
RAMPRAT